Shaft-packing.



B. LJUNGSTROM.

SHAFT PACKING. APPLICATION FILED MAR. 27, 190B.

Patented Feb. 23, 1909.

Inventor.

v No. 913,407.

BIRGER LiUNGSTRGM, OF STOGKEOLM, SWEDEN.

SEAFT PACKZNG.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 23, 1909.

Application flied Earoh 27, 1908. Serial No. 423,683.

Tonfl whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Brnenn LJUNesrneM, of 18 Grefmagnigatan, Stockholm, Sweden, have invente certain new and useful Improvements in Shaft-Packing; and I do ereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

The present invention relates to im rovements 1n shaft packing particularly a apted to elastic fluid turbines in which the shaft projects through the turbine casing.

Heretofore so oalled'water-locks or special packing rings around the shaft have been used. The water-locks usually consist of a concentric enlarged chamber arranged around the shaft with or without rotatln vane disks placed within the chamber. .n

the water-lock has no such disk, packing rin s are usually arranged around the shaft bot on the inside and the outside of the water look. If a disk be used the outer packing devices may-be omitted. On account of .the packing rings which drag against the shaft or the surrohnding casing,i

, such acking devices must, in order to W01 the loss is with 'gh steam pressures, be oiled and especially cooled with water. sumption of oil, the heat lost through the cooling by water has much significance as greater the nearer the packin devices are p aced to the warmest parts 0' the turbine. This loss of heat may therefore be considerable in radial turbines having one sided bearings where, as is evidentfrom the annexed drawing the shaft packing must be placed close to the hot vane-disk in order that the momentum of said disk in regard to the bearing may not become too large.

The object of the present invention isto evade the water-lock as well as to avoid the use of both water-cooling and oiling of the shaft-packing.

For this purpose the shaft packing consists exclusively of a number of concentric bafliing devices arranged around the shaft, so that the stationary and the rotary parts do not come into contact with each other and therefore require neither oiling nor cooling. T

The accompanying drawing is a vertical Besides the conare provided with threaded annular side projections forming spaces 4 between the disks for the driving medium which leaks into the casing.

In most devices, the outer interspace. between the stationary or the rotating parts of the paiiking which communicate with the engine room cannot be made sufiiciently tig tto prevent a part of the driving medium from leaking through into the engine room. By means of my invention 1 overcome this difficulty by placin between said outer parts vanes 6- whic act as a fan. These wanes are arranged in widened annular parts of the bafiiin device and may, as shown below the shafhTve of a radial type, or as shown above the shaft, of an axial typje, and one or more pressure zones may e arranged by means of stationary vane rings 7-. The rineipal feature ofthis fan device in its di erent modifications consists in that the stationary and rotating vane rings are so proportioned and arranged that they enerate a superpressure in the direction "rom theinterspace between the outer sta tionary and rotating parts to the outlet for that driving medium leaking through the inner bafiiing devices, in consequence of which air is sucked in through sa1d-0uter interspaces in the bafiing device and passes off by way of outlet 8 together with the driving medium that leaks .throughthe tightening device, the driving medium being in this way prevented from penetrating into the engine room. Said tightening device may also be used for compressors or the like.

What I claim is:

. 1. In a turbine, in combination, a shaft,

yond the outer casing communicating theremembers in the outer casing interposed bewith and fans in the'chamber. tween the latter and shaft, a chamber be- 15 3. In a turbine, in combination, a shaft, a yond the outer casing communicati thereturbine casin a casing outside the latter with and provided with opposite y pothrough whic the shaft projects, packing sitioned inlet and outlet ports, and fans in members in the outer casing interposed said chamber. between thevlatter and shaft, a chamber 1 In testimony that I claim the foregoing 20 beyond the outer casing communicating as my invention, I have signed my name in therewith, and provided With an air inlet I presence of two subscribin witnesses.

and an air outlet, and fans in said chamber. BIRGER L UN GSTR'GM. 4. Ina turbine, in combination, a shaft, l Witnesses: a turbine casing, a casing outside the latter HJALMAR ZETTE s'rRoi/r,

through which the shaft projects, packing K. E. UNBERG. 

